Lamar Warren, whose bullet hit the 13-year-old girl when he sprayed a Trenton block party on June 7, 2009, got 30 years for his plea to aggravated manslaughter and another nine for possession of a handgun.

Warren, 22, must do 30 years before eligibility for parole, meaning he could be get released at age 48 given credit for the four years he’s already been locked up. He was the last of seven young gangsters who pleaded guilty to the teen’s slaying without forcing a trial.

Mercer County Superior Court Judge Mark Fleming set the formal sentencing for Oct. 22. Assistant Mercer Prosecutor Doris Galuchie said she’d try to arrange to have all seven sentenced at the same time.

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Leonard was killed because Warren and six others allegedly drove by a block party on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in two vehicles spraying the crowd with bullets. Warren and his accomplices were Sex Money Murder Bloods looking to kill the Gangsta-Killer Bloods who had shot one of their members a few days earlier.

Leonard, a Monument School student, who was attending the street party, took a bullet to the back of her head from Lamar Warren’s gun. The other six defendants — Rasheed Miller, Robert Humphrey, James James, Michael Jennings, brother Keith Warren and Bernard Baines — have all accepted some form of a plea agreement.

More than a dozen members of Leonard’s family attended today’s hearing. None would comment on the sentence.

“No sentence was going to be enough for them. You have to remember, this was a 13-year-old girl,” said Galuchie, who handled the case with Assistant Mercer Prosecutor Stephanie Katz.